Toy



Jan. 2, 1923. 1,440,944

H. M. TARR.

TOY. FILED MAR. 21, 1921.

Inwenfir,

X Harold M Ta???) amp 1%,

' citizen-of the United States, and

Patented Jan. 2, 1923.

HAROLD M. TAKE, or Ann-matron, MASSACLHUSETT S.

TOY.

Application fild aria 21,1921. seiii at. 454,015;

. T 0 all whom 2'2? may concern: 7

Be it known that I, HAROLD M. TARR, a a resident of Arlington, in thecounty of lwli ddl'esex and Commonwealth of lVlassac-husetts, haveinvented certain new and useful l Improvements in Toys, of whichthefollowing is a full, clear, and exact specification." The object ofthis invention is the construction ofa' toy or game to enable chil- Idren to play store, providing them with diminutive shelving upon whichto locate small facsimiles of canned and package goods already on themarket. To this end I provide such a shelving with small objectspreferably wooden blocks of different forms and sizes, cylindrical onesfor the canned goods, and rectangular ones for the package goocls,theintention being to have manufactures of such goods furnish diminutivefacs miles of theirlabels, either with to be pasted upon the blocks ofappropriate shape and size by the children having the toy, and serveboth as attractive additions to the toy as valuable advertising to themanufactures. q

I have found is quite a problem to determine how much to reduce thesizes of the actual labels in order best to fit the facsimiles to mypurpose. If a yeast cake and bag of flour are reduced in the sameproportion, the cake will be too small to see, if reduced equally withthe bag to enable the latter to be located on the shelves. On the otherhand it is essential to have all the articles reduced with some kind ofuni- I formity in order that their relative dimensions shall correspondas nearly as possible to those of the goods upon the market.

Moreover, it is not expedient to have the facsimiles reduced inaccordance with any linear dimension, since some of the goods are lowand wide, others high and narrow, and others with substantially equaldimensions. 7

I therefore have determined both that the facsimiles shall be reduced inaccordance with a sliding scale, thatthe larger the article, the greaterits reduction, and the smaller the article, the less the reduction ofits label; and, in addition, that the unit for each article shall be itsface-area, since that more closely approximates its size to thebeholder.

In the drawings forming part of this spe'cificatiion, Fig.1 is aperspective view of a cabinet or set of toy shelving-embodying a part ofmy invention, the same being shown with toy goo'dsfupon its shelves.Fig. 2 isa diagram 'sliowingthe scale by means of whichth'e various.articles can be suitably produced in minature.

The cabinet consists of V 2, sides 3,'bac k Land shelves 5. side 3 ishin half that 0f 13 To each ed a door 6 having 1ts width ecablnet, sothat when swung against its front the doors will meet edge to edge; Uponthe inner faces of the doors are printedor otherwise indicatedshelves '7betweenwhich' are to be pasted miniature labels or representations ofvarious articles. Upon the shelveso arejto be placed the wooden blockseither cylindrical, as 9 or rectangular, as 10, the. sizes of the blocks7 a top 1, bottom being made proportional toithe articles v representedthereby, and having'the proper the goods or separately. These lables arediminutive labels pasted" thereon; q

For thus determining'thedimensions of the toy cans or packages, thediagram shown in Fig. 2 has an oblique line 11-11 thereon, with numerals1, 2, 3, eto., located opposite the heavy horizontal lines, and 20, 40,60, 80, etc., located beneath each vertical heavy line. If, now, apackage has the area of its face approximately 45 square inches, thenthe point in the oblique line 1111 where the vertical line from 45intersects it is in a horizontal line represented by 2% at the leftthereof. This signifies that the linear dimensions of the commercialarticle or label or both are to be divided by 2% for the toy article andlabel. Ifthe commercial article has its facial area approximately 140sq. inches, then the lines of the same are to be reduced to one-fourthfor the toy; and so on, the larger the article, the greater itreduction, but all the time preserving a definite ratio of reduction sothat the child playing store with the reduction will not fail to carrywith him a suitable relative proportion between the same, and yet somodified as not to have the largest articles too large for a toy, andthe smallest ones too diminutive to be seen.

By providing the case carrying the shelving, the child can suitably playwith the various facsimiles of go'ods he sees in the stores,rearranging, dusting them, selling and purchasing them, while the doorsof the case are provided with pictured shelves on which are permanentlypasted other labels and pictured articles, thereby enlarging theapparent shop-space yet with no greater ex pense than the addition ofthin board doors which serve to properly enclose and pre serve the loosearticles on: the shelves.

Inasmuch as it is a financially profitable thing i'or the manufacturersof the various goods toadvertise the same in the home and especiallyamong the children, the maprrty of the'manuiacturers Will undoubtedly coI operate and give to the children Whenever purchasing theirgOO(lS,1l10l6 or less or the reduced facsimiles of their labels. Hencethe toy itseli neednot be composed of more than the case or cabinet ofshelving and the various sizes of blank cylindrical and me tangularbl'ocl zs leaving to the children the fun of matching the labels to theproper size and shape of blocln and of applying the a same thereto.Although I have shown in the dr'awingsthe' inner-surface of but one doorand the representations of labels pasted thereon, it is to be understoodthat I also prefer to provide the'other door With similarrepresentations oi shelving and to have labels likewise applied thereto.

While I have described the objects 10, 11

as being of Wood, inmany cases it is pref- Yerable to make them iroinpaper and in the form of card-board cartons.

Iii case the manufact rers oithe articlesabove referredto, fail toprovide the re-I face-area oi the articles.

duced. labels in suffic-ient number or at an early date, I design tomanufacture and pro- 2'. A toy comprising a small set of shelves, I

and numerous small objects thefdi'mensions of which hear apredeterinined variable ratio to certain ell known articl'esof cornmerce thereduction for the larger articles being greater thanforthesinalleryarticles.

31 A toy comprising a small set.- of shelving, andnumerous small objectsin the shape of certainwell known articles ofcominerce,

with a ratio one element or which vis the 4:; A labelfor a-toy articlemade in imitation of Well known labels but dimensioned to bearapredetermined variableratio to the genuine lahels. v a i J In testimonythat l claim the foregoing invention, 1 have hereunt'o'setiny' hand this19th dayof'hlarch, 1921.

' HARQLD M. TARR:

'thesaine being reduced in size in accordance

